The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1866, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXXI... = a oeeeee N@s 180 ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas ‘Hotel.—Buoruxe Sax—li Prince. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth atreet, near Sixth avenues Excuse Comic Orgrs--Tus Docrom or Alwan- raga—A Nigut wv Rome SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. Metropolitan Hotel.—Krmiorian 811 ‘fan Niagara Lear or tus Busy F. Broadway, opposite (NG, Dance.” e0.— YHRISTY’S—OLD Scaoou or MINSTRELST, agE0NOS CRETE SO teint! MEER: ‘Nos. 2 ‘and ¢ West Twenty-fourta siree. —SCHEUMER- wony's Bor. JTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sau Vanr. INATION TROUPE, at —In 4 Vanuery or Licut ta, Coxrs DE Batter, 0. CHARLEY WHITE'S CO! Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad AnD LavauasLe ENraxraine NWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— RT. RRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty. «<n ‘wad Fifty-ninth streots.—Taxo. THoMas’ ORCHESTRAL Gaupen Conceuts, commencing at 8 o'Clock. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermtoriaw Mim macisy—BavLans, BURLESQUES AND PA) ToMiMes, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P.M. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Corner of Twenty- third street and Fourth avenue.—ExqisiTion oF Omiginal Woxks ur Living Anrists. SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 85 Broadway.—"Fan- magur Tarum MD New York, Friday, J NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements handed in until half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified under appro- priate headings ; but proper classification cannot be insured after that hour. THE NEWS. CONGRESS. ~ In tho Senate yesterday a resolution was adopted in- structing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the ex. pediency of reorganizing the civil service so as to pre- clude the Post Office, Troasury and Interior De- " partments from being used for party purposes. A Joint resolution was referred to the Committee on Finan~ ‘that interest sha!l be paid to each State on all ite #!ms for money expended by such State for *+~ use and benefit of the United States ‘~ -«° Public military def nce. wn. - oration of the District of Columbia Suffrage bill was postponed. An animated discussion ensued on the Niagara Ship Canal bill, but pending the consider ation of the subject the Tax bill was received from the House, and the Senate soon after adjourned. In the House the Senate amondments to the bills to continue in force and to amend the act to eatablish the Freedmen’s Bureau were non-concurred in, and a con- ference committee was asked. The House then pro- ceeded to the consideration of the Tariff bill, and Mr. Morrill made quite a lengthy speech in explanation and aupport of ft. The first section of tho bill was fally considered, and an adjournment took place. THE CITY. At ten o'clock yesterday morning a man named John ‘Slaven died at No, 224 First avenue. The case was im- mediately reported to the Board of Health, and Dr. Paine made an examination, but was unablo to say whother death had resulted from Asiatic cholera or a severe at- tack of cholera morbus. Tho police last evening reported that Timothy Che seman, residing at No. 01 Lewis street, had been attacked with cholera, and that his physician had given up all hopes of his recovery. The report comes from tho Lower Quarantine that the cholera trou- bio is nearly over there. No more deaths or admissions on board the hosiptal ship have occurred. The garrison at Seguine’s Point remain undisturbed, The standholders of Washington and West Washington Markets assembled yesterday at 100 Vesey street and adopted preliminary measures for defending themselves against an alleged unwarrantable exercise of authority on the part of the Board of Health in requirmg them to obtain permits to continue their business, A motion was yesterday made in the Supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge Ingraham, to dissolve the in- Junction restraining the Board of Health from interfer- ing with the stands in Washington Market, After hearing the argument of counsel, Judge Ingraham re- sofved his decision. Several applications for licenses were received yester. ay by the Commissioners of Excise, and upwards of fifty additional injunctions were issued by Judge Car- dozo, Tho batch of injunctions issued against the Ex- cise Commissioners by Judge Cardozo are returnable to- day. It is expected that there will be some lively times in the Court of Common Pleas in consequence. The argument upon the unconstitutionality of the Excise law was resumed yesterday in the General Ses sions. Mr. Brady made an elaborate argument, which virtually closes the case, counsel for the prosecution Stating that written points would be submitted to his Honor. Recorder Hackett will render an early decision. ‘The Gorman lager beer dealers of Kings county hoid a Public meeting on last Wednesday afternoon at the Brooklyn Garden, when resolutions were unanimously adopted to resist the provision of the new Excis* law relating to keeping open on Sunday. A committee was appointed to wait on one of the Judges of the Supreme Court and to apply for a general injunction against arrests © police force until the constitutionality of the law have boen passed upon by the Court of Appeals. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections yesterday the lowest bid for the erect on of tho Inebriats Asylum was accepted. A presentment was received from the Grand Jury recommending the en largoment of the prison accommodation at the Tombs. District Attorney Hall submitted his opinion that any amall boats hovering about Blackwell's Island, suspected on good grounds of being intended to favor the escape of prisonors, might be seized. Pleasure parties are not to be allowed to land on Randall's Island for the fature. ‘The fire at No 17 Beekman street on Wedneslay night was extinguished by the prompt action on the part of the firemen before it reached the secund floor, The Joss 1s about forty-seven thousand dollars. The alleged swindle ia the case of L. M. Montgomery and A H. Canedo, who, it is eaid, represented them- selves ax agents of Santa Anna in the purchase of a stoamer, was agate ap before the Supreme Court yescer day on » motion to release the two defendants from ar. rest. Decision was reserved. The stock market was firm yesterday, Gold opencd Al 154, declined to 161% and quickly reacted, closing United States steamer Brooklyn was coaling at Buenos Ayres for St. Heiona, with the Admiral on board. The Juniata was ordered from Motevideo to relieve the Brooklyn, and the Shawmut to relieve the Shamokin. The Kansas was at Montevideo, Our correspondent at Key West reports the health of the city as good on the 22d of June. We have nows from the Cape of Good Hope dated at Cape Town on the 14th of May. ‘The weather continued remarkably fine, and a quiet reaction towards the return of better times progressed. Farming operations were being carried on favorably in every direction, but heavy losses still occurred in isolated distriote from diseases among cattle and sheep. The settlement of a treaty of peace between the Basutos and the Free State was pro- gressing satisfactorily, The gold discoveries tm Trans- vaal wore confirmed. Several expeditions had left Natal on their way to the diggings. ‘News from El Paso, Mexico, dated the Ist instant, has beon roceived at Washington by Senor Romero, the Mexican Minister, Tho defeat of the Freach at Hermo- sillo by the liberals is confirmed. Juares has reor- ganized the army of Western Mexico and appointed Corona Commander-in-Chief, General Escabodo sends the Minister some important French correspondence, whioh he captured, and which exposes thelr situation and plans very completely, The imperialist Consul at San Francisco has official despatches dated the 12th inst., that the imperialists were driving the liberals rapidly through the State of Sonora towards the Ameri- can line, We have files from Turk's Island dated on the 9th of June. Tho demand for salt continued very moderate, notwithstanding advices from New York reported very Tittle in the market. A good supply was on hand, the price being eight cents. Our pleasure-taking correspondent at Saratoga Springs gives a giowing account of the warm weather, and tho consequent increase among tho visitors seeking for cool places at that famous watering place. Twenty-eight bridal parties are domiciled amoug the various hotels already, anda grand wedding was to have taken place on Wednesday. The races will commence on the 234 of July next, and continue six days Throe steam fire engines have been provided for the village, and one of them is already there, and the others will soon be ready. The storm which prevailed at Poughkeepsie on Wed- nesday was also provalent along the Hudson above that city. The north tower of St. Joseph's church at Albany was itfjured severely by lighning, and a steersman ona canal boat was killed by the same agency. At Troy the storm was the severest that has visited that Tocallty for many years, An embankment on tho Troy and Boston Railroad was washod away, anda freight train was pre- cipitated down the steep. No lives were lost, Vigilant Engine Company, of Philadelphia, arrived yraterday evening in Jersey City, whore they were made the recipients of a grand ovation. The Fire Department turned est to moet them, a procession took place and thev were aftorwards made the guests of the Jersey City strong at 153% {he markets were without essential change yesterday, hin some departments there was more dixpomtion vsiness, The geaerally unfavorable tenor of the ces from Europe was without marked effect, al- ‘ governed the actions of buyers and soliers extent, In cotton only avery moderate bual- ess Was transacted, and that at prices generally favor. ing the bayer Groceries wee quiet, but anchanged. On % : wnge th weal dull and nominal s is Corn was in large 6 till and lower, Pork ; Whiekey dull and MISCELLANEOUS. PD» he arrival of the steamship North America, from Pio Janeiro on the 3d inst, We are placed in possession ‘of our correspondence from that port of the aame date, ‘The Paraguayan, instead of falling back from Hamaité, us the allies confidently expected, awaited the approach of the latter, and by a bold and sudd lnsh gave a se vere blow to them ; but reinforcoments arriving, the Bra. vilians finally retrieved the day, not however without tho loss of a battery of artillery captured by the Para. puayans early in tho Oght. The fight was a very severe e More than a thousand wounded allies bad arrived «( Corrientes from the field. The Paraguayans still reso i tely held their fort and a severe battle was antic! y ated, All thotr war vessels had been converted into Coating batteries, with the exception of five, which are Lept as transporta and despatch boata, The Hrazilian veet had left the Parana and taken up ite pomtion above Tros Bocas, in the Paragoay river, Some of the papers report the water in the latter river ne fall i aangial matters ia Braail were unimproved, The rire Department at Taylor's hotel. The Fenian prisoners in the hands of tho Canadlah wi'l bo triod, it is now confidently asserted, by a high official of the government, before civil courte, The trial will not come off until the popular excitement is allayed. The commencement exercises of Lon: Island Collego were held at the Athonoum, Brooklyn, last evening. ‘The number of graduates is thirty-cight. The commenceinent exercises at Dartmouth College will begin on the 15th of July. A convention of the Evangelical churches of the city of Brooklyn was beld in the Reformed Dutch church in Pierrepont streot last night, for the purpose of providing moans for extending the work of evangelization. The United States steamer Vanderbilt, Commodore Rodgers, and the monitor Monaduock arrived at San Francisco on Friday morning. A fight occurred about the 16th inst. betweon friendly Indians and the Apaches in Arizona, in which the latter lost sixty killed and twenty prisoners. Fight hundred White Mountain Apaches of both scxes were receiving government rations. A Portland, Oregon, despatch of Jone 22 rays that off- cial returns from most of the counties give Wood, the Union candidate for Govornor, a large majority. The rest of the Union State ticket is elected, ‘The lawyers of Charleston, 8. ©., are practising in United states courts without taking the test oath, the constitutionality of which is under consideration by the Judge of the United States District Court at that place. The New Hampshire House of Representatives passed the constitutional amendment yostorday. The recent fre in Virginia City, Nevada, destroyed Property to the amount of $200,000 and rendered four hundred familios homeless, The Call for a National Union Conven- tiom at Philadelphia. A few days ago we published a call for s National Convention, to be held at Philadel- phia on the 14th of August. This call is signed by Senators Doolittle, Cowan, Dixon, Hen- dricks, Nesmith and Norton; by Assistant Postmaster General Randail, and by ex-Senator Browning, of Mlinois. These names give it a certain significance and importance. The plan proposed is to assemble delegates from all the thirty-six States and nine-Territories. The ob- ject is to hold counsel together, as friends and brothers, upon the present condition of our na- tional affairs,and to take measures to avert poss: ble dangers from the country. The principles which the delegates are to in- dorse are explicitly stated. They affirm the perpetuity of the Union, the equality of the States and the abolition of slavery, and insist upon the constitutional right of the South t3 immediate representation in Congress, As the delegates are to subscribe to this platform, and to be chosen by electors of the same faith, there is no danger that the con- vention will fall into the hands of Southern fire-eaters. They, as well as the redicals, are distinctly excluded. Obvi- ously, the intention of the framers of the call is not to rebuild the theories shattered by the cannon of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, but to cffeet a union between the conservative re- publicans and the more advanced and patriotic wing of the democracy in support of President Jobna n and against the radicals. That such a union is a consummation devoutly to be wished cannot be denied. If it bad been secured in | Congress at the opening of the session the Tadicals, a8 we have previously shown, would have been comparatively powerless and harm- less. It failed of accomplishment there because of the incompetency of the leaders on both sides, and especially of Messrs. Brooks and Raymond, in the House; and this move- ment for a national convention secms to be an effort on the part of democratic and con- servative republican Senators to retrieve the lost ground. They appear to be in earnest; there are indications that they are very strongly backed by at least a part of the administration; and that something practical may result from the movement is evident from the irritation and opposition of the radicals and their organs. In fact, under thia call for a consultation is a scheme for the organization of & new national union party, embracing all conservative men, North and South, Without attempting to discuss in a single article all the chances for and against such an enterprise, we may briefly refor to a few lead- ing points of the matter. We would have pre- ferred to see this movement practically inans gurated in Congress, and thence extended nat urally to the people at the fall elections. But our advite was not followed by the leaders of the Congressional factions, and at this late day, having by their dissensions and divisions surrendered to the radicals every important reconstruction measure, it is with mingled amusement and interest that we see them en- deavoring to atone for the errors of the past and the present by planning great combina- tions for the future. A union in Congress wag NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE’ 29, 1866: easy and practical ; the party is a difficult, tedious and wearisome un- dertaking. It is # question, also, whether the democrats are now as ready for o union of forces as they once were. The local leaders are already restive under this call and pro- test against it, although their opposition may not greatly affect the rank and file and may be overcome by events, Still there isalways a risk in neglecting the golden opportunity and undertaking to do something upon a grander scale when the opportunity to accom- plish it easily has passed. But, on the other hand, repentance is decidedly a virtue, and we are glad to see that even the politicians can sometimes exercise it, Messrs. Brooks and Raymond, and other gentlemen of their calibre, may still hope to win national reputations and defeat the radicals, and in spite of their past follies we shall say nothing at present to dis- courage them. if the movement for a new party does not come too late; if it is not upon too grand a scale to be successful in less than half a dozen years; if Seward’s Presidential aspirations are not involved in it; if the demo- crate can be induced to join it, and if the loyal men of the South will send delegates to the con- vention, then it only needs a strong popular im- pulse to become a power in the coming State elections, and, perhaps, in the next election for President. Who can give it that popular impulse? No other person than President Johnson. How ean he do it? By changing his Cabinet and demanding an immediate settlement of the Ala- bama claims against England. We do not know whether President Johnson is interezied in this scheme. The fact that it is started by his political and personal friends convinces us, how- ever, that he cannot decidedly disapprove of it, But as it stands it has no genuine vitality. When the platform ia summed up its total is Southern representation in Congress, That is the only practical feature. All the rest arg patriotic generalities, But in regard to repre- sentation the radicals can outbid the new party, and they will do so whenever it. be- comes at all dangerous. There is plenty of time for a flank movement before the elections, While the convention is resolving the radicals can unbar the Congressional gates and end all controversy. It is useless to go before the pddple upon an issue which the radicals can sweep aWay before the elections are held. The President must make new issues, and to do this he must remove his present Cabinet, throw down the gauntlet to England and make a bold appeal to the masses, including the Fenians, by insisting upon Canada or indemnities for the Alabama outrages. There is no other way for President Johnson to save himself or build up a party that will save him. Let him adopt this course and the people will rally to his standard, whether it be displayed at Phil- adelphia or elsewhere, and his friends may either form a new party for him or regain the control of the republican party. But if no such action be taken by the President, this National Convention will hardly influence even a State election. The spectacle of delegates from the North and South once more sitting together in council at the old In- dependence Hall may elicit a little sentimen- tal admiration ; but beyond this it will amount to nothing. Tae Financtat Derresston wv Evrora.—The financial advices from all parts of Europe, England alone excepted, received by the last steamer were decidedly gloomy ; and even the Bank of England was sufficiently under appre- hension with regard to the future of public affairs to maintain its rate of discount at ten per cent, for to lower it would involve the surrender of the privileges indirectly con- ferred by the letter of Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone, written during the recent panic. We are informed that every bourse in Enrope is extremely depressed, and the suspense with which the outbreak of hostilities is awaited is evidently favorable to further depression. Is is therefore probable that on the continent quotations for all kinds of securities will con- tinue to decline until after the first saock of actual warfire is experienced. In England the case 14 somewhat different, as Groat Britain, being removed from the complications of the pending contest, is likely to attract capital from the Continent, just as this coun- try is and as England did during our war. The outbreak of hostilities in Ger- many would consequently be likely to produce a feeling of relief on the London Stock Ex- change favorable to a recovery of the prices of such securities as were not largely held, and further depressed in that country by the fact of the war, But after war has really entered upon its desolating march, although we look for a better rather than a worse market abroad for our se- curities, and a decided increase inthe demand for our breadstuffa, there is reason for some feeling of anxiety as to what may occur mean- while. We have in all, national and other- wise, about three hundred and fifty millions of securities held abroad and we have only about eight millions of coin in the banks of this city. There are, perhaps, thirty millions more in the Treasury, nine millions of which are payable upon the July coupons of the public debt, but besides this there is very little in the country on this side of California. While, therefore, our ultimate financial tutare promises well—and faith in the pubHe credit never stood higher— we are exposed to serious dangers so far as the gold question is concerned. We have the satisfaction of knowing, nevertheless, that how- ever high the premium may rise it cannot im- pair faith in our national credit at home, while our money market is entirely independent of the freaks of gold. And although the aspect of monetary affuirs in Europe is at present so diecouraging, it will probably not be long before a more hopefal prospect presents itself, when, notwithstanding that the securities of Austria and Italy may be almost worthless, five-twenties will improve in price and popu- larity. Tae New Post Orrice Grouxps.—The south- ern half of the City Hall park has been selected for the site of the new Post Office, and pro- posals are to be sent to the department at Washington looking to its transfer from the city to the general government. By all means the city should cede the ground necessary for the building and then make the rest of the park en open, paved plaza, with regular roads for vehicles and sidewalks for pedestrians, in order to relieve the blockaded thoroughfares of Broadway and Fulton street, This would greatly improve the appearance and relieve the overorowded gtate of the lower part of the cityy organization of a new ‘The Critical Situation of Hurepe—War Acteally Commeneed. -We have given our readers the important intelligence by the Java of the actual com- mencement of war in Europe. The German Diet, in adopting the proposal of Austria by a vote of nine to six of the States and prinei- palities represented, for the mobilization of the army of the confederacy, end in adopting a resolution expressing the adherence of the Diet to the Austrian proposition of the indiaseluble cbaracter of the Germanio Union, had driven Praseia to the extremity of secession—much like our Southern secession—and the imaugure- tion of war. Theso proceedings in the general Diet at Frankfort-on-the-Main occurred on the 14th of June, and Prussia, on the 25th, declar- ing the confederation dissolved, marched a hostile force into each of the States of Hanover and Saxony, as allies of Austria, being two of the eight supporters of Austria in the Diet. The other six, unless strictly neutral, will be subject to the same treatment from Prussia. It appears that the eight votes supporting Austria represent # population of nearly four teen millions and a military contingent of nearly one hundred and seventy-five thousand men; while the votes supporting Prussia rep- resent s population of hardly three millions and 3 military force of tome thirty-three thou- sand five hundred men, It will thus be seen that by s very suggestive division of the Germanic Confederation Austria stands ap- proved and Prussia is rebuked. We presume ‘et it is because the Germans are mostly inclined to look with abhorrence and alarm upon the “happy accord” that has all this time marked the relations between Bismarck and Louis Napoleon, and between these two and the King of Italy. How, then, are we to account for the boldness of Prussia in resort- ing to actual war against the overwhelming vote and military strength of the German Bundt Why f¥ she 99 quick to seek # ool- lision between her six hundred thousand troops and the opposing thirteen hundred thousand of the German family? It is because Napoleon stands behind Bismarck and is ready to ad- vance to his support when the grand drama shall have been fairly opened. With a degree of frankness which in the chief of European diplomats is perfectly re- freshing, Napoleon says, in his famous letter to his Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, that had the late proposed Euro- pean Congress been entered into by all the parties concerned, “we (Napoleon) should have desired for the secondary States of the confederation (German) a more intimate union, a more powerful organization and a more important position,” (the First Napo- leon’s confederation of the Rhine, perhaps), and “for Prassia more homogeneity and force in the North’ (those Danish Duchies, and pro- bably one or two others most convenient), “and for Austria the maintenance of her great place in Germany.” Here we have a little buncombe, ‘and especially may it be so. con- sidered when Napoleon goes on to say “we should have wished besides that in considera- tion of a reasonable compensation Austria should have resolved to cede Venetia to Italy.” “But mark the coolness of his closing declara- tion—“In the war which is upon the point ot breaking out we (Napoleon and France) have only two interests—the preservation of the European equilibrium and tke maintenance of the work which we have contributed to build up in Italy.” Is not that clear enough? A free transla- tion of this imperial speech simply means that this European war is the work of Louis Napo- leon; that Bismarck, of Prussia, has played the part of his convenient instrument in view of @ reward too tempting to be resisted, and that the armies of Italy are set in motion with the fall understanding that France in due time will again descend from the Alps and resume the good work of Italian unity and independ- ence, where it was suspended at Villa Franca. This war, in short, is the work of Louis Napo- leon, and his purposes are to upset those de- tested treaties of 1825, and to reconstruct the map of Europe according to the imperial pro- gramme of Napoleon the First. But inthe armies of Russia moving down upon the Austrian frontier there is the same danger threatened to the nephew that over- threw the uncle. Russia stands ready to join Austria when the fray begins, and from the moment that Russia shill be tous committed against France as the empire, we may look for the revival of the old Holy Alliance, and the prosecution of the war to the restoration of the Bourbons or the French republic. Napo- leon thus far has been splendidly successful in his projects of a European war beginning with @ rupture among the Germans ; but in the very opening of the conflict the legions of Russia moving down towards the Danube threaten to spoil all the calculations of the game so far as any profits to Italy, to Prussia, to Louis Napoleon or to France may be concerned. Tax Dirverence Between Caxapa anp Eno- Lanp.--While the Canadians are boiling over with rage and demanding indemnities of the United States for the late Fenian raid the press and people of England are thanking us in the most cordial manner for arresting the progress of Fenianism. They see and realize that had it not been tor the interference of our government Canada would long ere this have been wrested from them. “The American government,” says the London Times, “bas acted in a manner which even exceeds anything that could reasonably bave been expected from the most friendly nation.” There are two very important admissions in this eulogium on this country—that the action of the British government towards us daring the war has placed that government outside of the claims of being « friendly nation to the United States, and also that the special inter- ference and protection of the British provinces by our present administration exceeded what it would have been if England had been our ally during our last troubles. It is gratifying to see that this action of our authorities is ap- preciated in that country, even if they are not in Canada, It may be that our Canadian neighbors look upon it in a different light and are indignant that the United States so uncere- moniously prevented their breaking loose from the reign of John Bull. Neither the people of Canada nor of this country appear satisfied with this result. It is, therefore, a sort of relief to know that the course of the Washington government is approved in one country, even if we do have to go across the Atlantic to find it, The London Times pretends that “those energetic and genuine acts of friendship will be long and cordially remembered.” These the tariff en the statuary ere very good words and read well om paper, but we imagine that our people will place more reliance upon them if the English gov~ ernment will promptly come forward and psy the Alabama damages. We shall then have some substantial evidence that the action of our authorities “will be cordially remem- bered.” Taxarion on Worxs or Ant.—We understand that a remonstrance has been forwarded to Congress by the artists of Rome and Florence against the tax of thirty per cent imposed by into this country. They contend that such » tax is not only impolitic, but that it is an ungenerous return for the advantages derived by American sculptors from the facilities afforded thom in Italy. To the last of these arguments we may object that Amorican art students obtain no greater privileges than those of other countries, and that what they get they pay for. The Money spent by them in the acquirement of s knowledge of their profession goes to enrich and benefit the centres of Italian art, whose interest it is to encourage the aggre- gation of foreign students within their mite. This, however, isa petty view ta take of the matter, The real question is whether the | busin benefit the revenue derives from the tax com- | pensates for the injury which it inflicts on the interests of American art; We are bound to say that it does not. Like many other imposts in the present tariff, it is, in a pecuniary sense, of no account whatever. Its effect is simply to prevent the importation of works which would be of vast benefit to the progress of art in this country, and which, if encouraged, would do away with the necessity of our young acalptors going abroad. The fact that we have no national collections of sculpture or paint- ing, and are not likely to have any, renders it all the more necessary that no obstacles should bg thrown in the way of the introduction of foreign works. On these gfoitnds, and these alone, we advocate a remission of the duties. They are not only impolitic but unproductive ; and this latter fact, if there were no other to urge in favor of the measure, would be suffi- cient to justify their abolition, “Scorcuzen Bur Nor Kitep.”—It appears from the siatemont of the Minister of Finance to the Canadian Parliament that the Fenian raids cost the government one million one hun- dred thousand dollars, and that the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, heretofore asked for militia purposes, has been increased to the heavy sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars. In presenting his budget the Finance Minister stated that the Fenian snake had been “gcotched, but not killed,” and hence it was necessary to prepare for future warlike action on the part of the Brotherhood. This shows that the Canadian apprehensions about the Fenians have not yet entirely subsided. But we think the Canada people can calm their fears for the present. W» do not believe the bold Fenians will undertake to fight both the Ameriosn and the British governments, That, of course, would be folly. Their business will, in all probability, for some time to come, be directed more to the value of polls than pikes in ald of the cause; and under the familiar ery of “repeal” they will make the neutrality laws a test question in the coming Con- gressional elections. Then our Canadian friends may prepare for a “scare” in earnest. A Praorica Mops oy Snowina Barrisn Aprrromation or American Nevrralirr—Pay up for the ravages committed on American commerce by the anglo-rebel pirates Alabama, Shenandoah, Tallahassee, Florida, &o, Political News. Tutaxoms.—In the last epportionment of represeuta- tives there was an addition of one tothe Ilinols quota Instead of re-districting the State tt was determined to elect a representative from the State at large, to be voted for on tbe samo ticket with State officers. Major General 8. A. Bulburt is talked of as the candidate of the repub- lican party this fall {or the place. Mixsxxota.—In the Socond Congressional district W. P. Murray, W. W. Phoips, J. B. Brisbin, Colonel Robertson, General W. A. Gorman and Captain Nash are struggling for ihe democratic nomination. Maine Potrtics.—The Hon. Sidney Perham was re- nominated as Representative to Congross from the Second district by the republicans, at a convention held at Auburn yesterday, Pennsylvan' Poltties. nw Aueany, Ind., Jone 28, 1866. The Democratic Congressional Convention met to-aay, Major Shorrad presiding. It waa large and enthusiastic. Resolutions were passed acknow! ng the justice of the late war for the preservaton of the Union; declaring uncompromising hostiity to suffrage for negroes; en- dorsiug the Prowident's vetoes of the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bill; opposing an increase of the rates of duties on Imports; warmly approving the restoration poliey the President, opposing any amend. ments to the constitution at present: dec! that none of the States were over out of the Union during the late rebellion ; coer} the exemption of three thousand millions of the wealth of the country from taxation; de- nouncing tho legisiation of the radical ey and demanding of the next national Legisiature that every spectes of wealth shall bear its equal share of taxation M. C. Kerr was renominated for Congress by seciama- tion, Hanniavurs, June 28, 1966, An informal meeting of soldiers favorablo wo the elec- tion of Clymer for Governor, a from various parts of the State, was held to. . They resolved to issue a call for a mass Btate convention of soldiers in this city on the Ist of August. Resolutions = adopted hoes ‘oo bnew] Fane 4 of bpd Johnson, eulogizing ‘ore Jors, and express. ing a firm determination to use all honorabie efforts to secure the election of Heister Clymer. New Hampshire Am Concorn, N. H., June 28, 1868, The House of Representatives this afternoon passed the Reconstruction amendment by a vote of yeas 203, mays 107. Storm at Pertiand, Maine. PortLaNn, Me., June 28, 1366, Asevere thunder storm passed over this vicinity yes- terday atternoon. At Windham a lady, thirty years old, was instantly kilied ; fatally, and an old toner A barn’ in Livingston, belonging. 10. R E in Livingston, belonging to ¥ Newell, was struck by lighval and d stroyed, with iis contents—seven tons of hay. house and a stable, be longing to Marshall A. Howe, in Standish, were burned yesterday morning. Military Affairs. GOVERNOR FENTON'S MOVEMENTS. Owing to Governor Fenton's absence at his home in the western part of the State he will not review, with his staff, the First division on the 4th of July proximo in this city, a8 Major General Sandford anticipated THE MILITIA ENROLMENT is being conducted with precision and energy under the supervision of Colonel 8. C€. Pinckney. ne hundred and fifty canvassers have been actively engaged in the work of enrolment since Monday jast, and between forty-five and fifty of the two hundred and Ofty mill. tary districts of this city have already been com- pleted. The canvassers frequently compiain of the interference of citizens with them upon whom they have had occasion to call in the discharge of their d@aty, Many ignorant persons have become much Imoensed at tho visit of the enrolling officer, and have threatened to take summary measures for the ejectment of the obnoxious official. It is unnecessary to repeat that thers is really no.canse for alarm on this subject, as this enrolment is simply in accordance with the State law which provides for the anowal perform: ance of this work. Within the last few days there have been a great number of applicants for admiasion to the organized and uniformed regimouts of the National Guard from among those whose names have been en- rolied in the ununformed militia This is certainty ® vorable rosuitof the work, as it will add greatiy to the ~wskaof the opmaqined regiments A Case of Cholera Morbus—Complaints, and How They Are Disposed O1—Heet- ing of Market Mon—Motion im the Su- Preme Court te Dissolve an Injume- tlom—Argument to Be Concluded To- Day—A Case of Cholera Heported Last Night, On Wednesday evening a man named John Slaves, re- aiding at No, 224 First avenue, was seized with vyomit-, ing, purging and other symptoms of cholera No phg- sician waa called im, and about ten o'clock yestenfay morning he died. Notice wag then sent to the Board of Health, when Dr. Paine proceeded to the premises with isinfectants, and, from his report to Dr, Dalton, it ts very doubtful whether death resulted from Asiatic chol- ra or a severe attack of cholera morbus. ‘No other cases were reported to Dr. Dalton yesterday, COMPLAINTS, Upwards of eighty complaints were received at Major Bosworth’s office yesterday. ll of them were in refer ence tosunken lots, damp beszements, offensive privies, Leet dedicated ‘These complaints are afl forwarded to of the different dis- trict, Le notify the property owners oe Re. innit cates te warp performed wy tho Board ot Health St tho expense of the property owners. <“ERTING MARERT 8TANDEHO! 5 A meetings Feelin ‘Washington and West tandholders of bi al yesterday morning eas. @. Corneil presided, and H. W. Knapp acted as secrriary pro tem. On call the meeting to order, Mr. Conway remarked that he find no authority for the Board of Health to require the permits, and that their authority extended simply to seeing that the stalls were well ventilated, cleanly, and that no improper meats were sold. He be- Heved it was another et to abolish Washington Market, and that as soon as the pce tng pe they would be revoked and an order issued to close Mr. Taos had had a conversation with Mayor Hoff- man, who said the standholders had nothi the ‘Board of Health, and that the'r original permits were sufficient. He deomed it advisable to prepare for an omergency by securing the services of counsel. » On motion of Mr, Kxarr a committec, consiovg, op Mosara, Knapp, Thorne and Kay, was ap” watch by the Chair to select a hall and appoint a”, evening at which the marketmen of Washington and West Washingtom Markets should assemble for the purpose of elfective organization. motion of gif. Kwarr it was decided that no persom prewnh Untif after the general mecting, aball apply ‘of A permit to the Board of Health to continue business, Mr. Karr also moved that if any of the marketmen are «ie by the Board of before the general Meeting Is held that the association defend that person's interosts, ‘The Presmext romarked that under such circumstances ho would feel it his duty to use the funds of the associa- tion to employ counsel for any of its members, ‘The meoting then adjourned. OLWKA REPORTED. dieventh precinct last evening re- ported that Timothy Cheeseman, of No, 91 Lewis street, had beon taken with cholera, and tbat his physicians had given up all hope of saving him. THE BOARD AND WASHINGTON MARKET—MOTION TO DISSOLVE THE INJUNCTION POWERS OF THE BOARD IM THE PREMISES, ETC. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, Before Judge Ingrabam Jou 23.—John 7. Hoffman and Others vs. Jackon Schultz and Others.—Some few days since, on application of plaintiffs as Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, aa injunction was granted rostraining the Board of Health from Lead nive | with the stalls at Washington Market, as contemp! by that body. To-day the case came up on a motion to dissolve the injunction. Mr, Bliss opened the motion by reading the papors on which the injunction was granted, which get forth the facts as to the appointment of the plaintiffs as Commis- sionors of the Sinking Fund ; that the rents of the mar- ket go into this fund, and that the rents of the stalls om tho sidewalks amounted to over $13,000 a year. It also appeared on those that defendants, who consti- tate the Board of Health, have made an attempt down the stalls, reopen ipso that they are a nuisance and injurious to the public health. A notice was on the 4th of May to tho owners of these stalls move them, when an 1 answor of tbe and were obstructions tho public health. Two Ch peep read, whi stated that the market was badly ventilated, in a filth; condition and a great nuisance to the neighborhood. Mr. A. M. Lawrence, Jr., who sopeaiee Tee tiffs, in conjunction with ex-Judge Allen, then Bev. eral affidavits of parties who oocapied stalls in Washing- ton Market, and also of those interested in the The aMfidavit of Comptroller Brennan set forth had made personal examination of the stalls, and be could not detect anything detrimental tothe hoalth. Affidavits of Messrs, Nathan MoGutre, Thorne, Richard Thorne, Matthew H. Roberts, Jr., John Thomas P. Way, also declared that the market was port: Some of these gentiomen have done market for fifty years, and are fully competent an . Pryhon ite alldavite wore read Mr, Sis z (he nutsancos, and ing ample his argument. He was followed by ex. contended that the Board had the matter, having no authority whatever to int with the market. The argumont will be concluded to-morrow. Affairs at Quarantine and Staten Island. NO MORE DEATHS OM THE CHOLERA Si1IPS—RBVERY- THING QUIET ALL OVER THE ISLAND—ORALTH OF¥FIORKS PREPARING FOR OTHER EPIDEMICS, ETO., RTC. ‘The nows from the cholera region stt!l continues of the most cheering character. There have beam no more deaths or admissions from the ships to the hospital hulke wince the last report. Everything looks encouraging, and it is thought that the trouble is now nearly over for the present. The health officers say that if they bad been permitted to land the well passengers upon arrival, ‘80 that they could have beon properly cleansed and their clothing fumigated and disinfected, the mortality would not have becu near so great. The chiofs of the Heaith Department assert that if they are not sustained by the law in establishing quarters at Seguine’s Pont, and then if the Staten Islanders carry out their threat of burping the buildings, so that the emisrants cannot be kept together, they will be almost justified in turning them loose on the island and allowing them to roam wheresoever they please. Cuptain O'Rourke, the Superintendent of the hospital ships, w= — engaged in having them perfectly renovated and put in complete order for the ro- ception of persona sick with yellow fever, in case any should come to this port the coming season. It is understood by the police of the island that there exists among the chinead qaiite » forlalaable socket or- ganization, which it is supposed will attempt to operate ia case the Injunction should go against them. It is more than probuble, however, that tke people will obey 0 law. Captain Walling’s men sre amusing themselves im catching large quantities of Oh, there being nothing else so far for them to do. Sinoe they have been at Seguine’s Point they have built for thomselyes quite a baudsome skiff, which is to be launched. to-day. A bottle of water is tobe broken over its prow, and she is to be-called the ‘Tommy Acton,” in honot of the President of the Police ‘incipies, There luring the day. Commissioners and of his cold water was bot 80 arrest on the whole island tvto mim Water axp 1s Drowxen,—Last Sunday atter- noon Phebe Peterson, a girl fifteen years of age, whoee parents live on board the canal boat Star of Washington, lying at the foot of Delancey street, East river, went ashore to buy some cherries, and when returning to the boat she fell through « Lole in the pier and was drowned. A little girl who was with her at the time screamed for help, but before aid could reach her the girl sank to the bottom and was drowned. The fat! of deceased and others grappled for the body, but without sue. cons tii yesterday, when the remaina were found at the foot of Jackson street. Coroner Gamble was notified and held an inquest. The testimony showed that the pier was ina very dangerous cundition, totally unsafe for either man or beast to go upon, and that it had been so fora year past. It further appeared thas deceased was the thrd person who had been drowned within a year past by falling through the samo or other holes in that pier. Jury found “that deceased came to herdenth by being drowned by failing Yaroagh ahoie in pter 68, East river, on Sunday, Juno 24, 1865; and, further, the jury are of opinion that the owner or owners, lessee or leases, are guilty of culpable negligence in not having said pler kept in good repair, us it is now unsafe for either man or beast to go upon.” D was a native of New York. Fatan Rainoan Casvacty,—Coroner Neumann yester: + day held an inquest at No. 134 Allen strect on the body of Caroline Krehbiel, » little girl two years and two months old, who died from the effects of injurina, Oni the afternoon of the 20th instant, car of the Second avenue line, driven by Patrice Reilly, was pase~ down Allen street between and Grand streets, vies without being observed by the driver, ensued on Wednesda~ accidental death, but ‘The jo consared t driver for not taking proper precautions to prevent the accident, Casts oF Sewernoxe.—Coroner Gover yesterday held inquests in the fullowing cases of sunstroke:—Angust Zeller, a native of Germany, aged forty-cight years, re. siding at No. 3 Elizabeth street; Richard Shorts, aged sixty-five yeurs, « native of Ireland, residing at No. ia East Blovengh street, John Lenahan, aged twenty-three years, & native of Ireland, residing {n Seventy first street, neor Fighth avenue, Catherine Kain, & native of Ireland, aged twenty-five years, residing at No. 328 Fourth avenue. Tho usual verdict was rendered in each case News from Fortress Monroe. ‘onTaas Mosron, ~, nearly (Wo of thrve days, —